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For Me, Hair Is An Accoutrement. Hair Is Jewelry. It's An Accessory.

Whatever Happens In My Life, Whether I Stand Up Or I Fall Down, Whatever The Case, I'm Going To Use It In My Art. Why? Because I'm An Artist And I Have To.

Anytime You Share Life Stories With Other People, You Know, You Are Acknowledging Their Humanity And Kind Of Accessing Some Things About Yourself, And Other People Start To Expect Things About Themselves. It's Kind Of Like A Fellowship.

For My Writing, And Because I Love Talking To Young Women About Life, I Often Asked Them Which Would They Rather Have - A Father In The House With Them While Growing Up Or A Big Butt? I Tell You 86 Percent Of The Time, Girls Say A Big Butt Because It Gets Them Further.

My Mother's A Genius. She Just Kept Feeding Me Art On Whatever We Had; Paper Plates, Silver Platter, Didn't Matter. You Know, She Just Kept Feeding It To Me. So We Went To See All Kinds Of Theater. We Would Go To The Art Museum Pretty Much Every Sunday, And I Would Watch Her. She Let Me Know That Art Was Supposed To Touch.